Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
Some truths are so staggering in their ramifications that Americans simply shrug and tune them out as if strangers in a strange land.
Is their current bewilderment because modernist America is unrecognizable —a nonexistent border, downtown homeless juxtaposed to hipster professional elites, DEI racial essentialism, cities reverting to precivilizational wastelands, millions exiting blue states to red, an FBI and DOJ gone rogue, the normalization of violent theft and assault, biologically born men sandbagging women’s sports and their locker room privacy?
We are reaching the point where the once unbelievable has become the banal, as a single generation has done its best to undo the work of a prior 12 generations. Consider the following:
Three leftwing prosecutors are criminalizing politics with more than 90 simultaneous indictments of Donald Trump, the ex-president and currently the leading Republican primary candidate. While New York prosecutor Letitia James is hounding Trump with a $250 million state lawsuit against the Trump organization and family, on the pretense of supposedly Trump overvaluing his real estate and filing inaccurate financial statements.
Is there any Mafia don, mass murderer, or terrorist who has faced so many indictments or suits in so many jurisdictions at almost the same time?
The prosecutors’ immediate lawfare agendas seem transparent enough. They wish to bankrupt candidate Trump with endless legal costs, and humiliate him with his mugshot blasted over the Internet, and put endless Lilliputian legal ropes over a shackled candidate Gulliver, and inflate the ego and agendas of local prosecutors, and purportedly earn Trump empathy enough to win the nomination only to be hemorrhaged with still more indictments, gag orders, and court appearances to bleed him out in the general election.
Americans ask themselves questions whose answers are never given. Why are all these Trump prosecutors leftwing or with Democratic connections?
Would any of the 90 something indictments for “crimes” of years past have been lodged against a citizen Trump who had retired from politics?
Why are these indictments of alleged wrongdoing of years ago now in summer 2023 suddenly both being synchronized in leftwing jurisdictions of New York, Washington, Miami, and Atlanta with the beginning of the 2024 election cycle?
Are any of the indictments against Trump also applicable to others?
Alvin Bragg’s charge of campaign finance violations (Hillary Clinton, 2016)?
Jack Smith’s allegations of encouraging mass civil unrest (Kamala Harris, 2020)?
Illegally removing and possessing classified federal documents (Joe Biden 2009-2022)?
Letitia James’s lawsuit alleging financial irregularities and fraud (Al Sharpton 2009-2014)?
Fani Willis’s claim that Trump was seeking to sabotage the constitutional duties of state electors (Martin Sheen, and an array of B-list Hollywood actors, 2016) and colluding to interfere with an election (Fani Willis 2003-4)?
Will any losing Republican candidate in a contested election any longer question the integrity of questionable balloting—in the manner of Vice President Al Gore in 2000, Sen. Barbara Boxer and 32 Democratic congressional representatives in 2004, candidate Jill Stein or Hillary Clinton in 2016, or Stacey Abrams 2018—and thereby risk financially and career-crimpling indictments?
Will conservative district attorneys in places like Wyoming, Alabama, or West Virginia now seek to indict a Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or Gavin Newsom to earn notoriety, to weaken the opposing party, and to leapfrog to higher office in the manner that we should expect a Fani Willis or Alvin Bragg to be currently planning?
When Republicans retake the Congress and White House, will they begin indicting all the weaponized prosecutors who colluded to exempt a grifting Hunter Biden for five years? Will they try Joe Biden as a private citizen for his prior corruption over the last 15 years?
Why would Donald Trump believe the 2020 election was “rigged?” Was he cribbing that belief from liberal journalist Molly Ball’s braggadocious 2021 Time essay? After all, she outlined what she called a leftwing “cabal” and “conspiracy” to change voting laws, turn on/turn off the 2020 Antifa/BLM street protests, absorb the work of registrars, and suppress unwelcome social media news.
Was it more morally suspect to question the ethics surrounding the election year 2020 or for Mark Zuckerberg to infuse $419 million to absorb in asymmetrical fashion the work of the registrars in key swing precincts?
A Cardboard Cutout President
We are witnessing the daily deterioration of President Biden to the point that caricature and jokes about his senility are no longer funny. He is not just an embarrassment but becoming an existential danger to the country. Does anyone believe that in a national crisis over Taiwan or nuclear escalation in Ukraine, Joe Biden would or could make the final decision?
Biden cannot finish a teleprompter sentence without slurring his words, losing his place, or screaming and whispering in incoherent fashion. If that is his public persona, what he is like in private sessions of governance?
He spontaneously both shouts angrily and creepily whispers for effect. Moving a lightweight aluminum beach chair becomes a Herculean task.
In almost every impromptu speech Biden flat-out lies or spins self-serving autobiographical fantasies—often in the midst of foreign dignitaries, grieving families, and refugees from devastating natural disasters.
Biden often does not know where he is on stage or where he is to enter or exit. He is one fall from oblivion.
Not since Woodrow Wilson’s final year in office, has any president simply been unable to fulfill his duties, both physically and cognitively.
Or perhaps the country is in the same position as when an ailing Franklin Roosevelt in late 1944 was deemed just hale enough to get elected and continue Democratic control of the White House, but deemed not healthy enough to finish his first year in office—necessitating the rapid removal from the ticket of the socialist Vice President—and an otherwise likely 1945 President—Henry Wallace.
Yet there has been almost no serious speculation in Congress or among the cabinet about invoking the 25th Amendment. This silence is doubly strange given the Left’s former fixation between 2017-21 with removing Trump by any means possible—including invoking the 25th Amendment.
That silly effort led to the surreal—the acting FBI director Andrew McCabe and the deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein scheming to wiretap Trump in private conversations to reveal his supposed craziness–or the Congress dragging in an incompetent Yale psychiatrist to testify that at a distance she had diagnosed Trump as demented.
Do we recall ex-Pentagon officials and officers talking openly about a military coup to remove the supposedly touched commander in chief?
Our Chairman of the Joint Chiefs contacted the head of the People’s Liberation Army to warn him that Trump might be unhinged. So is Gen. Mark Milley now making yet another call to Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army to warn him that Joe Biden is dangerously disturbed?
It is precisely that entire cast of characters who now sit mum as Joe Biden believes we are fighting in Iraq against the Russians or that his late son Beau was killed in action in Iraq, or it is impossible to square the tens of millions of dollars that flowed from abroad to the Biden accounts with any concrete expertise rendered or income reported as taxable.
Is the tolerance of Biden’s senescence because his blank stares and mental confusion prove useful to the Left by exempting the president from offering any defense of his mostly defenseless policies or defending his absurd claims to know nothing of the Biden family grifting operations that were predicated on his own offices?
Or do the puppeteers, the Obamas, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the hard leftists of the party find a non-compos mentis Biden mannequin a useful veneer in pushing through their extreme agendas? Or does the media call the shots, especially after they propelled a basement bound Biden to the White House?
Mainstreaming Corruption
There have been a few corrupt presidents in our past, who (as in the case of Lyndon Johnson) left office far richer than when they entered or were surrounded by rogues (Grant and Harding) or were masters of leveraging and grifting long-term contracts and networks in their lame duck tenures to ensure their impending multimillionaire status the day they left office (the Clintons and Obamas).
But never in memory has an entire extended presidential family been involved in selling influence for millions of dollars in quid pro quo lucre—the vast majority of such ill-gotten gains likely untaxed, by being channeled through sham companies, foreign deposits, fake names and alias email accounts.
Never has a corrupt presidential family itself offered so much proof of its own guilt. Do the Democrats have any idea of the smelly Biden albatross hanging about their collective necks?
How much longer can they continue to dismiss the communications on the Hunter Biden laptop?
Or the testimonies of IRS whistleblowers?
Or the assertions of Biden family business associates?
Or the statements of relevant Ukrainian oligarchs?
Or the latest assertions of Viktor Shokin?
Or the extraordinary efforts of the Bidens to stonewall subpoenaed documents, use fake names and shadow email accounts, compromise federal prosecutors, appoint sham special counsels, and use media toadies to the point of embarrassment to hide the ugly truth?
In sum, what were the Bidens so afraid of that prompted them to corrupt the DOJ and FBI to stonewall any discussion of the huge cash infusions that came from abroad into their family coffers?
Americans have impeached or nearly impeached presidents before for abuse of power, lying under oath, or supposedly using government to pursue their own personal agendas or harass their enemies.
But never has a president been so clearly compromised by bribery from shady foreign government-related grandees in expectation of favorable treatment.
In other words, there is growing evidence that Joe and Hunter Biden, and likely Jim Biden as well, made millions of dollars on the hopes that then Vice President Biden, and perhaps one day a future president Biden, would alter or compromise U.S. foreign policy on the expectation of getting rich.
The State Department’s Ukraine team deemed Viktor Shokin making progress in rooting out corruption. So why did Joe Biden without consultation fire him? Did Biden put his own financial interests above the country’s—in a fashion that the Founders worried was impeachable “treason?”
If the current investigations are not halted or compromised, we may soon learn why the Constitution explicitly specified bribery and treason as an ironclad cause for impeachment.
Can Americans even comprehend that they have elected a dishonest man to the presidency who is protected by his own senility, his decades-long everyman construct of ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton, his usefulness as a prop to the radical leftwing agenda, and the defensive and offensive weaponization of the criminal justice system?
Can Americans digest that instead of campaigning against Donald Trump, outdebating him, outspending him, and outfoxing him, their government must unleash kindred prosecutors to destroy Trump by blowing up the entire tradition of blind American jurisprudence?
Are the media and left claiming that to save the rule of law from Trump, they must first destroy it?
the best ? to ask is ‘who really is acting POTUS?’ and whoever that is has committed frank treason…period…that’s the ? to be answered
Spot on. The strategy has been transparent from the beginning. Biden gets in, lets the Leftist/Marxist cabal rage unchecked as his crime family plunders all in sight, withdraws leaving an even worse VP in charge, who installs that acting POTUS as VP (pro temp), then she sails off into the sunset leaving the coup fait accompli. Sounds like a movie, but it’s real.
Great article. Well explained corruption that not only Democrats put into place, but Republicans continue to ignore. I wonder what the tipping point will look like?
“When Republicans retake the Congress and White House…” Seriously?
Good point; don’t think that will ever happen until we fix our elections.
There are only two plausible things at work in the apparent disintegration of our system of gov.:
1- Most citizens are ignorant, stupid, and/or both.
2- Government “leaders” are compromised by threats, blackmail, money or all the above and they know #1 is true.
I believe they are infested with one of 3 “I”s, some hold 2 and a few encompass all 3.
Ideologues of the far Left.
Ignorant of the facts, as you pointed out.
Idiots which you also mentioned.
People who actually believe the problem and the solution is “fix our elections” should get ready to use the excuse “we only lost the 2024 election because it was rigged” after the next election.
Two or more things can be true at once. One of those things is elections and tampering whether by Mark Elias, Mark Zuckerburg, FBI, etc can influence elections.
Other things include choosing candidates that run on a platform of a 100% ban on abortions, Republicans who tell their voters not to show up to vote because it’s rigged, thinking you can win the independent/undecided vote by focusing on wanting to talk about and re-litigate the 2020 election instead of about the Biden record and alternative, etc.
So yeah, let’s just campaign on “fix our elections”. Weird how DeSantis visited political genocide on Florida Democrat politicians in the last election despite Democrat fixed elections – election fixing didn’t work there! Or stop Glen Younkin from beating an established Soviet Democrat veteran star candidate.
Yup, just “fix our elections”… that and repeating complaints about 2020 are all we need to focus on to win in 2024
Well-put. To avoid depression I think hopefully of sources/forces of sanity (in addition to you, Shapiro and Prager come first to mind; Supreme Court decisions, GOP candidates; etc.).
Actually they are NOT “shrug and tune them out”. Their outrage is being suppressed. Even by folks like you who claim to be empirical. The fact that you can’t and will not support Trump UNLESS he won betrays everything you say and write. The longer this is allowed to go on, the more dangerous it is for the country.
Professor Hanson WROTE A BOOK SUPPORTING TRUMP. What have you done as consequential in Trump’s favor?
And he has been disowning it since. His words, not mine, it’s not to support, but to explain why people like us supported Trump.
I haven’t done anything to damage support for Trump. Trump has overwhelming support. The more they prosecute him, the stronger his support gets. How can that not be the case? Only an intellectual who cares more about being seen as empirical can think otherwise.
That’s the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the so-called conservative talkers. Victor wishes anyone, but Trump to lead the Republican Party. He’s not a NeverTrumper only because he will support Trump if he wins, and frankly that’s because he’s not an idiot like the rest of those guys.
Great job Victor – again! The litany of biden/progressive marxist abominations must be ingrained in the minds of every American citizen. Every American citizen has the responsibility to protect and defend the United States Constitution. The biden marxist regime realizes it must destroy the American culture first and then destroy the country. Herbert Marcuse’s playbook!
The destruction of America has taken far less time than anyone would have thought.
Still salvageable, but it will require blood, sweat, and tears.
Thank you for expressing what every thinking American can’t help but agree with.
This is all quite obvious to anyone who’s watching the honest news, however the fake news spins a different yarn. Why? Are all the fake news journalists that toady that they don’t stand up and report/investigate the issues at hand for what they are, no matter where it leads? Is the agenda that powerful? Does nobody care about the truth? What is the hope if we can no longer count on honest elections? I know many people whom I consider intelligent, that don’t get it. They can’t imagine that the news media could be influenced in such a way. How could climate change be a hoax? Everyone is buying the narrative in spite of the science telling a quite different story? Is there any hope?? Lord have mercy.
Adapted from VDH remarks: Our government has unleashed kindred prosecutors to destroy all who stand with Trump, by now trampling the most singularly American of rights, that is the right to the private legal counsel of one’s choosing, by criminalizing such conversations as conspiracy rather than strategy? This cannot stand, this creates an enemy of state class that has no rights, and fails constitutionally as a result.
Joe Biden is “one fall from oblivion!”
Wow—what an inclusive summary of the current situation—only one disagreement-
Judging by all of the evidence—Biden was not actually elected—hundreds of thousands of votes magically appeared in the wee hours of election morning. In the most crucial counties.
The amount of corruption on both sides of the aisle is staggering, and has reached the point of ridiculous.
We, the People have sat by long enough while this hypocrisy has continued to grow. We are almost to the point of another Civil War. I just don’t see this nonsense stopping until blood is running into the storm sewers!
Somehow, President Trump needs to regain the Oval Office simply because he is the only honest candidate looking out for the tax-paying Americans.
“Rule Of Law” is a principle and is dependent upon which theory of Law to which one ascribes. Positivism is still in the ascendant for the past century and a half while this country was founded upon Natural Law ( our inalienable rights ). Positivism is in essence, man made, a humanist approach and hence rule of law follows that same theory, we decide what is the rule of law and change to suit our needs. Natural Law follows from what we hold as spiritual and unchangeable, such as our God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Here, rule of law remains constant and not given to the whims of men. Today’s theories of social justice are build on a foundation made of sand and cannot stand for long.
Can’t stand for long William? Maybe…but they can stand long enough to destroy this country. The proof are the viable social justice political systems around the world that aren’t going away. I too want a fair and transparent rule of law that applies equally to all men. But we are watching it change in real time and cannot seem to reverse the negative changes nor stop any further mutation. Four more years of Democratic Party rule will be the death knell of a legal system that was once the envy of the world.
I’ve thrown up my hands.
My advice: Tend to your own garden.
The only thing The Left, the media and the old guard Republicans are trying to save is their corrupt political careers. The 7-year effort to destroy Donald Trump, and his (ugh!) supporters, has resulted in the destruction of our constitutional republic.
No piece of fiction could match what is happening in our lives today.
Thank you VDH, for so succinctly describing our situation.
Maddening, infuriating, and all true. But, my concern is, unless Americans read it here, do they know how corrupt and morally bankrupt the Bidens are? I don’t watch Fox News anymore so I don’t know what they are reporting and the lefty media surely isn’t reporting any of this corruption. I have zero faith in the uninformed American. Where you get your news matters and if you are tuned into MSNBC, you are going to believe that Trump is a villan and the righteous prosecutors around the country are charging him with true crimes and misdemeanors. If we had an honest press, this would be a different country.
I am so glad to read VDH’s column by subscription instead of on AG or other sites and have to look at disgusting photos on toenail fungus or ugly skin tags mid article that make me click away. This subscription is well worth the cost.
Fabulously written. I yearn to see another written piece from you everyday. You are so incredibly talented and extremely intelligent. I’m sure you’re a wonderful husband and loving father to your children. You express yourself so well when speaking on the news shows about current events and past history. I wish I could express myself as only you. But I’m so angry inside about the injustice to President Trump and our country, that I find myself stuck and waiting for everything to pure from my brain to my lips. It’s sad that we aren’t allowed to debate and if we dare to debate or protest I’ll be handcuffed and thrown in a forgotten jail cell. While reading your article you are speaking for me. Thank you so much for loving America 🇺🇸. Sincerely, Maureen
WAPO, NYT, and the AP released stories claiming Shokin was corrupt at the same time – was that a State Department ‘leak’ (planted story)? – Is the State Department/Ambassador to Ukraine compromised in this grift?
I don’t think Rule of Law is a priority for Democrats. At the high levels, I think the comittment is only to pure power. I think at the lower levels Rule of Law is seen as structural racism. I think they would say something like, “When the law was written by racists for racists, it is invalid, not soverign.”
George III’s revenge
Well played, sir.
It is also remarkable that most of the Republican candidates for the 2024 nomination appeared to be unaware of the significance of all this. Recall the hesitancy in the recent debate when the candidates were asked whether they would support Trump should survive his legal battles. This was as close as they got to the fundamental questions raised in this article. Could these candidates have been fearful of being charges with similar fantasy crimes had they questioned the shaky foundations and probable conspiracy underlying the current show trials?
I have a friend who routinely calls to vent on the SOTU. He can not comprehend how we got here, how anyone would want the “here we are” to continue.
I explain this…….how some groups of people hate it as well, or conversely, overlook it entirely don’t even see it. Or actually are deceived into believing it is just grrrreeeat.
A. Those in the middle being squeezed – just live in a daily agony and pray.
B. Any solid citizen, hard working, paying taxes, not racist, not bigoted, and perhaps not squeezed also asks themselves daily …… exactly WTH is happening here? ! ? They pray too.
C. There’s another group. They live in very comfortable rarefied air. More than one home, sometimes three. Daily yoga, travel, early retirements, on the board of whatever… or consulting, or,or or. They are literally, personally ,unaffected and shrug off the astounding changes because those are largely UN SEEN!!! Yes they watch news. But torn down statues, poop on a sidewalk, tents/needles in the park, an unsafe street ? Doesn’t exist for them. They aren’t in L.A, San Fran, N.Y.C. Their kids may be off on their own and fine, or have very fine futures via parental wealth.
D. The group who wants to be taken care of, AND the group that LIES to them – ( the left ) and one can only hope the FIRST wakeS up, and soon. ……AND 2024 KICKS THE REST OUT OF D.C
No country has seen so much dramatic, self inflicted destruction in three years. I have to pinch myself
Sorry Phil. Truth sucks
Biden didn’t have the votes and the next Democrat will not likely garner the general or electoral votes honestly. But rest assured they will try to stuff the ballots in key states. I personally think the 2024 election will be determined by the Supreme Court.
Yes, many of our politicians have been corrupt for decades. The difference between then and now is that they no longer care that we know. Why? Because they know they won’t be prosecuted. Today they still are not being prosecuted. One year from now they will not be prosecuted. They have all the power and there is nothing we can do to stop them from milking us dry. If there was, we’d have done it
I read this column twice. It’s hard to follow. Frankly it’s like a unified theory of politics in USA today. The conspiracy tones in this piece reminds me of some of the UFO stories of former government officials.
I recognized every fact that Professor Hanson pointed out. He described them correctly. They are straight FACTS, not speculations. And yes, there is clearly a unified conspiracy being executed by the Democrat Party to subvert the 2024 election, even as President Biden and his son Hunter have committed REAL CRIMES much more severe in nature than any alleged against Mr. Trump.
I do not have a brief for Mr. Trump. I believe that fixing the White House is more important than vindicating Mr. Trump. By nominating a REAL CANDIDATE without Trump’s controversies, Republicans can perform a Jiu Jitsu move against Biden. With a candidate who does not have the kneejerk antipathy directed at Trump, no one in their right mind would vote for decrepit Biden.
Succinct an ‘Nothing but the truth’
IN MY HUMBLE OPINION….
It can be 1861 again, but this time with domestic asymmetrical warfare that includes cyber weaponry as well as selective use of the Second Amendment’s insurance rights, coupled with a new Constitutional Convention called by two thirds of the State legislatures basis Article V of the Constitution. And the U.S. Military will undoubtedly step in, on their own, to keep their oath to defend the Constitution.
Abuse of Power and serious U.S. Code 18 criminal acts, orchestrated, campaigned, and committed by the Democrats for now years against Donald Trump, can only go so far before a Civil War again erupts.
Hi Anonymous,
“And the U.S. Military will undoubtedly step in, on their own, to keep their oath to defend the Constitution.”
They did not after the 2020 presidential election. Why do you think it will be any different after another flawed 2024 presidential election?
In his book “The End of Everything”, Victor draws the conclusion that the last failing of societies before they are obliterated once and for all is that they held on to a hope, that somehow, someone or something, would come to save them. I hear talking, talking, talking among all the conservative media and politicians – those that have the public megaphones and the elected offices – but they take no concrete actions to right the ship. They simply bemoan our Banana Republic . So all they leave us with is the same “hopeful” whimsy: that we need to win the next election.
My belief is that the 2024 election will not be different than the 2020. I see very little being done to undo the manipulations of voting laws and rules in those jurisdictions where they were subverted during the last election. So what will good people – being good people – be able to do after the next crooked election?
I believe the Constitution enlists the obligation unto us to save our selves from our current tyranny. So when?
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Keep in mind that any state’s particular laws can result in conviction and imprisonment. Imagine any political candidate being charged with the same, and therefore prevented from campaigning or perhaps even being eligible to run for office?
SELECTIVE POLITICAL PROSECUTION IS A CANCER UPON THE USA
Here are some examples of felonies from different states that Donald Trump would be indicted for and recommended for imprisonment. Anyone else no charges at all.
• In Alabama, it is a felony to sell or possess a “noxious stink bomb” or any device that emits a “noxious and offensive odor.” The offense is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $15,000.
• In Florida, it is a felony to sell or give away more than 24 fluid ounces of malt beverages (such as beer) at any one time. The offense is punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.
• In Georgia, it is a felony to steal or damage any “plant, shrub, or tree” that is worth more than $500. The offense is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.
• In Hawaii, it is a felony to own or operate an “electric foot scooter” without a license. The offense is punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
• In Illinois, it is a felony to eavesdrop on or record any conversation without the consent of all parties involved. The offense is punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $25,000.
• In Indiana, it is a felony to possess more than one “pre-written funeral plan.”. The offense is punishable by up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
• In Kansas, it is a felony to abandon or neglect any “livestock animal” that is worth more than $1,000. The offense is punishable by up to seven years in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.
• In Louisiana, it is a felony to steal or damage any “alligator” or its parts. The offense is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $50,000.
• In Maryland, it is a felony to sell or possess any “non-biodegradable detergent” that contains more than 0.5% phosphorus. The offense is punishable by up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $25,000.
Maryland has a law like Illinois punishing recording conversations. Both were enacted by Democrats in state government with a long tradition of corruption, who do not want to be convicted based on objective recordings by a participant in a conversation showing their criminal intent. The Supreme Court long ago made clear that the Constitution allows a participant in a conversation to not only testify to what other people said, but also to RECORD the conversation and submit the recording in evidence to confirm their testimony. It is NOT a violation of the 4th Amendment regulation of search and seizure to do so, because anyone willing to talk to another person has waived all objection to them sharing what they hear with the police. The accused speaker has no constitutionally protected “expectation of privacy” in any conversation. Laws punishing recording of a conversation with another person is a law enacted by corrupt criminal conspirators. It has no legitimate purpose.
Great article!
Despite all of the truth so well outlined by you, most Americans don’t feel this way. I listen to the polls as outlined on the Megyn Kelly show today, and personal inside knowledge from the Steve Deace show today; and we are going to lose if Trump is the candidate.
I only have to observe my own bubble of people, who are so angry when I voice ANY of the facts you outlined in your article. They lose their minds, when you state facts.
As Megyn Kelly observed, Trump, in his own words stated their goal was to wear him out. Although he is a fighter, they probably will.
My prayer is both men, Biden and Trump, gracefully bow out. Let, new Leadership emerge. Our country desperately needs it and deserves it.
Paula
Tampa Bay
Nope. The answer to the bully isn’t to drop out of school and hope someone else steps up. After all Trump has exposed and suffered, the noodle-spined, ingrate, suburban “republican” turns their back and demands the man fighting the bully on our behalf “bow out”? I despise this garbage take, and it only exists as a result of the failed DeSantis campaign. You may not see it now, but just like everything else, you will. Have a great day!
In your last sentence you left someone out: the GOPe Bush-funded, “right”.
They already destroyed the rule of law. There is no justice any longer in America. Also, I do not care how retarded Biden gets. If justice is ever had for him and his family. I would have no problem hanging him, weather he new it or not. The most treasonous family in the history of America. Hopefully we win the war. If not, I’m sure they will 86 us all.
https://youtu.be/5nUZekJ3pfM
Dr. Hanson: A unified theme of the Democrat Left policies is that they are coercing Americans to worship several new RELIGIONS. They are religions because they have no basis in scientific reality. That includes the belief in a secret, unconscious racial bias in people who have never acted in a racially discriminatory way, declaring they are SINNERS because of their own RACE. It includes belief that there is in Trans people an inner “gender spirit” that cannot be detected by science but has a distinct gender identity that is totally divorced from the gender that is stamped in the DNA of every living cell in their bodies. It includes a belief in a pagan goddess of nature that punishes Americans for emitting carbon dioxide by sending hurricanes and wildfires, a belief that Biden expressed explicitly in his recent interview with The Daily Show, demonstrating he has abandoned Catholicism. In all these cases, Democrats are using government force to coerce Americans to worship false gods. It is blatantly a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Americans need to attack these coercive programs on the grounds of the Bill of Rights. It will give the Supreme Court the ability to strike down these insane fantasies, akin to the fantasies of Stalin and other communists.
Stage 4 cancer has worked the Republic over but good…. drained its strength.. been unrelenting in wrecking each once healthy organ.. darkened its future. We are very much running on borrowed time….
We are witnessing the result of a couple decades worth of moral and educational decline, being replaced by secular consumerism. False religions and junk science in the form of climate change pushed and perpetuated by the global elitists and their cabal of fellow travelers and useful idots have led us to where we are today. Reagan was correct in saying ‘Merica can only be overthrown from within, not without. Twenty or so years of Clinton appointed sycophants, crony capitalists, reality TV addicts, and their various and sundry affiliates have put us in the predicament we find ourselves in now, One Nation who has forgotten God , Liberty for none, Justice for some, and the Sword of Damacles hanging over us all. 2024 is going to make 2020 look like 1968 did to 1960, a blind man can see it coming.
I believe there is a syntactic error in paragraph two under Cardboard Cutout.
I agree Wes! DeSantis is funded by some sketchy people. It causes me to take a good hard look at what he is actually doing.
The NWO Globalists are on stage up front and center in this 2024 Election. We are in perilous times.
This nation has been sold out and is up for grabs to the highest bidder. The invasion at the border is an act of Treason against “We the People”. May GOD have mercy on the soul of this nation and turn this NWO atrocity around. As America goes , so goes the rest of the world. We cannot give up, we cannot surrender, we cannot quit in our resolve to save this nation. We must build, not destroy the foundational principles of this nation. We have the best protection given and entrusted to us by our Founding Fathers. The Constitution of the United States delivered and preserved for the rights of all U.S. Citizens. We must not allow this document to be cast aside for the foolishness of mere men. We must not surrender our U.S. Sovereignty to foreign entities, or resign our will to Domestic enemies. We must persevere! We must restore soundness in this nation by rightly interpreted Rule of Law and Order to protect this nation and future generations. We must recognize that all men are created equal in the sight of God. And He has given us the same rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Our Government is established to preserve these rights. A weaponized Government is a self-serving, self-governing, agenda run and operated by rogue leadership, not by the safety, protection, order of law to preserve it’s populous. People Pray for righteousness to prevail and protect the USA